Past events
War Studies Seminar: The battle for Ap Bac, South Vietnam - and why it is still relevant.
Presenter: Visiting Professor Clive Williams MG
Abstract:
The battle for Ap Bac in South Vietnam in January 1963 led eventually to a substantial...
Defence Diplomacy: Is the game worth the candle?
Few Defence topics have been as...
Fresh from the lab: What the latest techniques can tell us about how Australians view our major foreign policy challenges
Abstract: The 2008 US Presidential Election introduced the general public to many of the innovative techniques which political scientists and others have developed to analyse survey...
Escalation in the East China Sea: A Political and Military Possibility
Even if the leaders of China and Japan can lessen the significant political tensions between North Asia's two biggest powers, the East China Sea dispute could still spark a bilateral...
Not Sleepwalking: The origins of the First World War Revisited
Abstract: After many years of broad consensus among serious historians, the origins of the First World War are once again fiercely contested. In this lecture Professor Gary Sheffield...
INTERFET: Reflections on the 1999 East Timor Crisis
Following the vote in favour of self-determination in 1999 chaos engulfed East Timor. Dozens of buildings burned, thousands of people were displaced from their homes and some were injured or...
2014 John Gee Memorial Lecture: weapons of mass destruction and the US rebalance to Asia
Chaired by: Professor the Hon Gareth Evans AC QC FASSA, Chancellor of The Australian National University
Lecture Title: weapons of mass destruction and the US...
The Australian Army in Papua New Guinea, 1951 - 1975
Strategic and Defence Studies Centre (SDSC) Public Lecture
In 1972, just prior to Papua New Guinea's independence, almost one in ten regular soldiers in the Australian Army were Papua...
The End of the Line: The experiences of Australian prisoners of war in Japan
STRATEGIC AND DEFENCE STUDIES CENTRE (SDSC) WAR STUDIES SEMINAR
Presented by Dr Lachlan Grant, Military History Section, Australian War Memorial
The experiences of...
The 19th Century Transformation of Great Powers and Strategic Relations: The Mode of Power in International Security
Strategic and Defence Studies Centre (SDSC) Public Lecture
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